As for shiites coordinating their uprising when the US is distracted by Baathists, that's opportunism, not alliance.
Nathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen E Philion" <philion at hawaii.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Fw: Re: ANSWER's answer on Iraq
nathan wrote What's wrong? The stupid binary idea of a "unified Iraqi people" rising up against the US. It's classic WWP binary analysis-- there are two sides and only two sides in every conflict, there are no mediating interests, no complications. Ex-Baathists, Al Qaeda-allied jihadists, and Iraqi Shiite fundamentalists are all the same, all anti-imperialist fighters on the same side.
--actually it doesn't sound that much different from what most reports are telling us at the moment, though it differs from the military sponsored reports of sunni-shiite hatred, division,...
and it's odd to hear nathan attacking answer for black-white arguments given his rather black white view of 'slavery' in china and the need to stop trade with china (or threaten them with stopping trade)...
steve
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